Who wrote Psalm 109?

Answer 1

A:Psalm 109 is a spiteful psalm full of hatred towards an unidentified personal adversary, traditionally attributed to King David, to the chief musician of his court. However, scholars say that the psalms were a literary genre unknown at the time of King David, and that the psalms were actually written over a period of more than two hundred years during and after the Babylonian Exile.

Further evidence for the later dating is to be found in the mention of Satan in verse 6: Satan was never mentioned in any book written before the Babylonian Exile. Also, verse 22 describes the author as poor and needy, something that is not supposed to be a good description of David. Moreover, why would a king lower himself to publish a psalm against one of his own subjects, rather than simply using his authority to remove the person.

We know approximately when the psalms were written, but not by whom. We do not know who wrote Psalm 109.